Ashish Mohite
Speed-Based Additive Manufacturing Technique
Discovery and Exploration of Design Potential of Speed of Deposition in Additive Manufacturing
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Ashish Mohite's paper-based doctoral thesis is the result of a PhD research into
generative design potential of certain fabrication parameters in
Additive Manufacturing (AM). Advent and proliferation of Computer-Aided
Manufacturing (CAM) in the field of architecture challenges the way
buildings are designed and made. Like construction methods before CAM,
large-scale concrete and metal 3D-printing will set limitations and
opportunities for design, however, uniquely it will offer a chance for
architects to radically expand the profession's domain. In digital
fabrication, an architect has a capacity to participate in designing
construction workflow.
Predicated upon this
context, the hypothesis is that manipulating machining parameters would
inform various elements of an architectural object and that the value of
such intervention would be in enhanced continuity of the design process
and in emphasis on material aspects of architecture. The research
questions are: what architectural implications are latent in AM
fabrication parameters, such as speed of movement? How can such
parameters be instrumentalized to produce specific effects? These
questions are investigated through research by design methodology, with
an aim to develop an essential structure for Speed-Based AM technique by
determining most prominent relationships, causalities and dependencies
within speed of deposition and between it and other elements of the
production system. Speed-Based technique is an AM method devised by this
research. It revolves around designing speed of deposition, defined as a
term for how fast a printer moves and how much matter it deposits at a
given location.
Read the doctoral thesis here